By Peter Okutu

ABAKALIKI—EBONYI State government yesterday raised alarm over the clandestine activities of some ‘failed’ politicians in the state who have resorted to using fetish means to attack Governor David Umahi and other State Executive Council members with the aim of bringing down the government.

The Commissioner for Information and State Orientation, Senator Emmanuel Onwe stated this while briefing newsmen on the outcome of this week’s state executive council meeting.

He explained that the politicians who were hell bent on bringing down the government had been consulting shrines and holding several nocturnal community meetings for the purposes of plotting evil.

“Those who want to distract the government, for example, those who go to rural shrines and organise community meetings to attack members of Exco or create a scenario that will distract members of Exco, they are warned to desist from such acts as this government will resist it,” he said.

The Information Commissioner maintained that the state government would not allow the bad influence of the previous administration to distract it, saying that such influence would be vehemently resisted.

Senator Onwe added that the same way, government and administration fall is not usually deliberate but because of internal contradiction and personal ambitions. He cited the administration of former President Goodluck Jonathan as a victim of such anomaly, adding that  during the immediate past administration of  Governor Martin Elechi, the state had more than

f ive de facto governors and each at every point in time were seen asserting his own authority and priorities, a situation that killed government’s good objectives and intentions.